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[teac23]

It's The Second Foreign Language School Affiliated to Shanghai Normal University. It's far away from downtown (2 hours by subway). Two of the departments are a mess, the HR and the Academic one. They can't answer basic questions, like: “What is the curriculum of this school?”, or “When are my docs going to be ready?”. There is a nucleus of very good students that keep the school going. The rest are playing with their phones being insensitive at almost everything. Nobody in the school talks about the school life, only about their personal lives and there is also a tendency in mocking education and the best students/ teachers. There is also racism, you here replicas like: “What? Now they hire Indians?”. This was about an outstanding teacher who finally left. Most teachers simply leave. Nobody cares, nobody does nothing about anything, the school basically relays on the desire of some students to learn and of some teachers to teach.

[rocket man]

yup, I worked there until January and it was a clusterf

There are some very good foreign teachers there who tried their best and an incredible south african academic director who has been put in a horrible situation by his Chinese overlords.

The lack of any discipline by the Chinese staff and the kowtowing to the students only caring about the parent's tuition gave the teachers absolutely no control in the classroom. See my earlier post about what happened to me

HR person was an idiot, for some reason I got lucky in terms of getting my residence permit transferred though it meant I had to spend last summer in Shanghai. Many teachers had to go on visa runs one was gone for a month because of HR's incompetence

no wonder a vast majority of the teachers are leaving the school.

best advice is don't take a job.

[CNexpatesl]

Out of curiosity, how much did they pay you guys?

[rocket man]